"If you say "can't" you're restricting what you can do or ever will do."

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Source : Michael Phelps (2012). “No Limits: The Will to Succeed”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

Michael Phelps

“Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.”

Source : Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”
“This was a war that was based on lies. It was wrong for us to invade Iraq. It's wrong for us to occupy Iraq and we need to bring our troops home.”
“Our normal tendency is to feel dissatisfied and to criticize our body, speech, and mind - My body is out of shape; my voice is unpleasant; my mind is confused. - We are so caught up in this pointless, neurotic habit of criticism that we disparage others as well as ourselves. This is extremely damaging.”

Source : Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.116, Simon and Schuster
“I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I accept myself unconditionally right now”
“Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 28, 2014
“Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.”

Source : Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.150, Diversion Books
“Performance's being...becomes itself through disappearance.”

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